The ten case studies in this book together present a comprehensive pic¬ ture of African
economies in crisis. Broadly dichotomizing Africa's post¬ independence economic …

Africa in the 1990s remains in crisis. There is some evidence of recovery from a decade or
more of economic turmoil and stagnation. Nonetheless, most countries in sub-Saharan …

In this timely volume sixteen specialists examine the external and domestic factors that
precipitated Africa's economic crisis and the nature and consequences of the process of …

This chapter examines the origins and nature of the economic crisis in Africa and the policy
framework giving rise to it, drawing on Southern African country examples to illuminate and …

The crisis of development in most of Southern Africa has come to be regarded as an
inevitable outcome of the failure of post‐independence development policy in those …

While the pitiful images of famine victims generally emanate from the very poorest countries
in Sub-Saharan Africa, the entire region faces an intense economic crisis. Why is this area in …

Africa is mired in a developmental crisis, not the common narrow monetary or financial crisis
portrayed in the standard literature but a crisis of a more profound and protracted nature. A …

The United Nations Special Session on the Critical Ecnomic Situation in Africa concluded in
June 1986 with the Adoption of a Programme of Action which included an explicit …